About the Authors

Piming Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Piming Zhao, Audrey Torcaso

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Audrey Torcaso

Contributed equally to this work with: Piming Zhao, Audrey Torcaso

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Andrew Mariano

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Li Xu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Sadia Mohsin

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Lixia Zhao

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Renzhi Han

renhan@lumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ RH. Performed the experiments: PZ AT LZ. Analyzed the data: PZ AT AM SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LX. Wrote the paper: PZ AT AM SM RH.